Pattison, Harriet and University, Liverpool (2018) Discourses of Home Education and the Construction of the Educational ‘Other’. Educationalfutures, 9 (1). pp. 38-63. ISSN 1758-2199
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Abstract
This paper considers the discursive construction of the educational ‘other’ through home education in England and Wales. Taking the view that language is a political tool (Fairclough, 2003), this paper explores how the space of ‘other’ education is discursively created from both within and outside home education. Using Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis (CDA) methodology, a variety of texts (including official documents, Local Authority websites, the media and home educators’ own words) are analysed. Discursive strategies of universalism, normalisation, self-proclamation and self-censorship are identified and considered. It is argued that these strategies are instrumental in creating and maintaining the separation and difference which is used to politically position home education and home educators. The paper concludes with the argument that genuine educational plurality is partly a matter of discursive practice and that changing patterns of discourse around home education may be a way of increasing diversity, inclusion and opportunity within education.
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| Additional Information and Comments: | The is the accepted article which is published in Educationalfutures. The original publication is available at https://educationstudies.org.uk/journal/ef/volume-9-1-2018/discourses-of-home-education-and-the-construction-of-the-educational-other. |
| Keywords: | home education, alternative education, educational plurality, discourse analysis |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | Harriet Pattison |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2018 09:27 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2024 12:32 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/2565 |
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